The Premise Behind It All

Some time ago I found a delightful group of writers, the Orange County Writers Guild, affectionately known as Book Bandits. Meeting each week for a couple of hours, these creative people write for a specified time (usually 25 minutes) and come up with impromptu stories based on three prompts. The results are always amazing, both in the variety and in the quality of the writing.
Sometimes it's possible to use all three prompts; other times the prompts just hang there in limbo while we scribble about something else altogether.
This page is my 25 minutes’ worth for this date.

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